| darkknightkryta said: Final Fantasy 8 didn't start it, Final Fantasy 12 did cause that's when they stopped listenning to fans and started listenning to themselves. Point is, them focusing on iOS/Android development isn't going to help them stay relevant. That's just doing, as Badgenome pointed out, what they've been doing already. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a studio in the U.S. just for mobile development. What happened? They got shut down. "We all want Final Fantasy games on iOS" said no one ever. |
I'm sure there's a decent return on investment in such things, particularly ports of old games. It's pretty hard to lose your ass in mobile development since the games are so cheap to make. But unless you hit the jackpot Puzzle & Dragons style, there's not a ton of money in it, either. Certainly not enough to maintain a company as huge as Square-Enix.
